Designer Blade Dynamics’ record-breaking 100-metre model — a slimline, modular concept on track to begin scaled prototype testing next year — will be almost as tall as the iconic Saturn V, the US spacecraft flown on the Apollo and Skylab missions between 1966 and 1973.
The comparison is perhaps doubly apt. Not only will the D100 blade be physically huge, it also has the potential to catapult the wind industry towards something like its own moon landing: the 10MW-plus turbine.
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